close-cropped
Americanadjective
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clipped or trimmed short.
close-cropped hair.
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having one's hair clipped or trimmed short.
a close-cropped wrestler.
Etymology
Origin of close-cropped
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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A woman in her 50s, with close-cropped hair, she told me she drove out this way every month or so to care for her elderly father.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Rev. Israel Vázquez, 58, soft-spoken with close-cropped hair, had held Briany before, when he formally presented the baby to God in a ceremony at his Pentecostal church in Lakeland.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
On TV, at town halls and universities, the bespectacled officer, with close-cropped gray hair and an almost professorial demeanor, lays out the stakes for his countrymen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Mr. Galanis sports a dark close-cropped beard and often wears either polos or Cameo-branded shirts and baseball caps.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
There are people with close-cropped hair and tightly twisted buns who must belong to Abnegation, and a few rows of people in glasses who must be Erudite.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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